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Elizabeth warren of massachusetts is expected to officially announce her 2020 presidential campaign from lawrence, massachusetts. a textile mill city with a rich labor history and where latinos make up more than three quarters of the city's population. warren who is proposing a wealth tax on ultramillionaires will join kamala harris, cory booker, julian castro, kirsten gillibrand and others and a field that may include amy klobuchar who will unveil her 2020 decision tomorrow. joining me is leah wright, assistant professor of public policy at harvard kennedy school and author "loneliness of the...

That she is running for president in 2020 making her announcement in lawrence, massachusetts, that will be at any moment now. my panel back with me. i want to go around quick lightning round before we get the senator on board, and one of the issues that senator markey is very much involved in, he is a cosponsor of the green new deal, that's going to be a big deal, elizabeth warren is one of the members of congress that's really focusing on climate change as an important issue, leah. do you think that issue can be something -- does the environment move votes is the question? it hasn't in the pa...

Beth fewy. this should be an interesting speech. i'm going to go around the table and sort of talk about some of the significance of it. i'll start with you at the table, leah. lot of women running. the frontrunners if you just go by the buzz and the excitement around their candidacies appear to be the two women, kamala harris and now obviously elizabeth warren is going to come in big because she has big ideas about taxing, et cetera. what does she need to do today to get herself beyond the one thing people want to talk about her dna? >> so, elizabeth warren has to do the thing that she's best...

It rears it's head during parties every halloween from college parties to college campuses the intercultural affairs council the yale was so concerned that it emailed students advising them not to dress up in what they said culturally unaware and insensitive costumes calling out blackface among other things and there is also a number of celebrities forced to issue public apologies after making similar decisions. leah wright is a professor. so, welcome back. -- >> always good to be here. >> why do you think this is a lesson that is never learned? >> so blackface is this long, long complicated r...

Some point. >> right. we just have to keep having these conversations, national conversations. leah wright, thank you very much. >> thanks for having me. ahead, a hearing is about to get under way over the president's tax returns and cnn has new reporting on where they are and who has tried to get them. with all that usaa offers why go with anybody else? we know their rates are good, we know that they're always going to take care of us. it was an instant savings and i should have changed a long time ago. we're the tenney's and we're usaa members for life. call usaa to start saving on insuran...